Put Climate Change on Trial
Over a year ago, in the tradition of Ed Abbey and Earth First!, college student Tim DeChristopher (aka Bidder 70) monkey-wrenched an auction for oil and gas leases in Utah…
Chevron presents: Nigerian Film Festival?
Ok so you may or may not know, but Nigeria has a crazy huge film industry. In fact it’s third in the world after Hollywood and India’s Bollywood scene. In…
Brazil: Don’t shove Belo Monte dam down our throats!
Earlier this week, the Brazilian environmental agency (IBAMA) issued the first environmental license for the Belo Monte dam. By doing this, IBAMA gave the first green light for the construction…
Letter from a West Virginia Jail
Last week, Eric Blevins came down from a nine day tree-sit on Coal River Mountain. He then spent a couple of days in jail. While in jail, he wrote this…
150,000 (and counting) want to Change Chevron!
Thanks to a big push from Avaaz yesterday, there are now over 150,000 people who have signed a petition telling Chevron’s new CEO John Watson to clean up the oil…
Chicago RAN Activists Jam Chase’s Brand
This just in from Chicago: On Thursday February 4th during the lunch hour rush in down Chicago, activists from RAN Chicago attached a banner to the JP Morgan Chase headquarters…
Governor Manchin Goes to Washington, Obama’s Affair with ‘Clean Coal’ Continues
West Virginia Governor, Joe Manchin, was spotted in DC today. He was attending a meeting at the White House alongside about a dozen governors from key energy producing states. Manchin…
King Coal’s Top Lobbyist to Meet Obama
It’s getting serious. They are bringing out their big guns. King Coal is getting ready to throw their kitchen sink at the pesky anti-mountaintop removal movement. The coal industry’s top…
The Human Costs of Chevron
As many of you know, there is lawsuit that has been going on for over 16 years to get Chevron to own up and clean up its toxic legacy in…
Washington Post (un)freezes Change Chevron online ad
For the last week, team Change Chevron has been embroiled in a corporate free speech battle involving a scrappy little enviro group called Rainforest Action Network, The Washington Post, and…
Chevron vs. RAN: Who’s Speech Is Freer?
In the weeks since the Supreme Court’s horrible, democracy-eroding ruling giving corporations unbridled spending on political contributions and advertisements under the guise of “free speech,” many of us have asked…
King Coal Sues Tree-sitters in Federal Court
The nine day Coal River Mountain tree-sit that ended on Friday has entered a new phase. Mining giant Massey Energy has filed for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in federal…
RAN Responds to Jim Fuschetti…. Again
Martin Mudd is an anti-strip mining activist who manages a Facebook group asking that JP Morgan Chase stop financing mountaintop removal. Members of Martin’s group closed their accounts with Chase…
Group Therapy For Banks Hooked on Tar Sands
After more than a year of denial, RBC may be admitting that it has a problem in the tar sands. Tomorrow, we’ve learned that RBC will host a group of…
Banks Ranked and Spanked on Tar Sands
As an ode to the “rank ’em and spank ’em” strategy coined by our outgoing Executive Director Mike Brune, we proudly present the following roster of international banks backing expansion…
Ecuadorian Community Activists Get Canadian Mining Company Delisted from TSX
Over the past 12 years, RAN has supported through our Protect-an-Acre small grants both Defense and Ecological Conservation of Intag (DECOIN) and Community Defense Council in the Intag region in…
Take Action! Protect Communities from Dangerous Coal Ash
Take action today and demand that the EPA regulate coal ash and other coal combustion wastes as a hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The Tennessee…
Nine-Day Tree Sit Ends at Coal River Mountain
After enduring over a week of ice and rain, mind-numbing noise abuse and harassment by Massey security, Eric and Amber came down today. The Climate Ground Zero tree sitters vowed…
Obama: make green jobs the No. 1 priority in Appalachia
Listening to the Obama’s State of the Union address last night, I was encouraged to hear that job creation is the President’s number one priority for 2010. Well, here is…
Coal River Tree Sit Continues As Does the Noise Abuse; Gov. Manchin Asked to Help
After almost a week of preventing blasting on Coal River Mountain, tree-sitters with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice still continue to prevent Massey’s blasting near the Bee Tree site….
Royal Bank of Canada Awarded “Most Environmentally Irresponsible Company” at Davos
Tar Sands Financing Causes Global Embarrassment for Nation’s Largest Bank It isn’t often that Rainforest Action Network heads to Davos for the opening of the World Economic Forum (WEF). But…
RAN launches ad campaign to challenge new Chevron CEO John Watson
For the next week Rainforest Action Network is running a series of advertisements targeting Chevron’s new CEO John Watson in The New York Times and Washington Post online. The color…
Tree Sit Day 5: Call In Day “Stop the Noise”
The fight over Coal River Mountain is escalating. Miners are using loud air horn like noises and bright lights to keep the tree-sitters up at all hours in hopes of…
Malaysian Communities Still Under Threat
In April 2008, I participated in an international fact-finding team that traveled throughout the Malaysian state of Sarawak to document reports that Indigenous communities were being systematically deprived of their…
Vote for Mongabay…
One of our favorite rainforest blogs, Mongabay, is up for a Climate Change Communicator of the Year in a contest sponsored by George Mason University. If he wins, it will…